AMS Forum: Red top gilled mushroom. (1/1)
Borealis is associated with conifers. Also you have one critical element missing, what does it taste like? Is it hot ( peppery) or mild. Chew a small bit especially around the end of your tongue and then spit it out.
AMS Forum: ID Help — from Tyson and Lyndsey (1/1)
All distinct Russula characteristics. I’d start my search there I know Martin uses taste on Russulas if it’s hot and peppery definitely not an edible variety. The colors are water soluable making ID extra tricky on these.
AMS Forum: Leccinum Insigne ?? (1/1)
Insigne? Maybe, probably…. The orange Leccinums are a tough group to split up, what it is growing with is one key. In reality nobody is real sure what to to call them until some more DNA work is done. So an «orange red top growing with aspen» is as good a name as Leccinum insigne. […]
Great Alberta Mushroom Foray 2016
July 29 — August 1 Lac La Biche, Alberta. Finally! After some delays after sorting out the Fort McMurray fire implications we are confirmed for our Lac La Biche foray. We will have Danny Miller, one of the Authors of Matchmaker, introducing one of the best mushroom ID programs available, giving us hands instruction on […]
Morels Are Coming…
The joy of morels is a ritual of spring. It is the first of many gourmet edible mushrooms that pop out. In Alberta, morels come out in a variety of habitats, but whatever habitat they are in, they are difficult to spot, especially if you are just starting to learn about them. Mostly we find […]
AMS Forum: Honey mushroom is pretty much done in Calgary area (1/1)
Last weekend, I went to check two locations near Calgary. One place is in the Water Valley area, and the other place is near Sibbald Lake. Both areas are 100 KM apart, but the honey mushroom I found at both area were really old. It surprised me because the honey mushrooms normally come out after […]
AMS Forum: Clitocybe fasciculata (1/1)
Came upon these roadside clusters of what I would normally just called Crowded White Clitocybe , probably C. dilatata . They had all of the ID features including being clustered , misshapen, white spores and typical elliptical to pip shaped spores. The big difference was that these Clitocybe smelled absolutely terrible almost rancid like, where […]
AMS Forum: King Boletes (1/1)
Boletus edulis has finally arrived in the Peace Region. A little later than normal but it is fruiting. Look for the net like (reticulate) area near the cap apex. These are robust boletes that are absolutely delicious.
AMS Forum: Russula Mushrooms (1/1)
Hello I am interested in these mushrroms and looking for advice on edible species and variation within species in Alberta. My Grandma always said that these (not lactarius) were poisonous. I have noted that the mushrroms of western Canada book lists only about 12 species where as in other books (for north America for example) […]
AMS Forum: Hypholoma capnoides (1/1)
Found these young Hypholoma capnoides growing in a pure pine forest. They do not have the strong yellow gill color nor the strong bitter taste as in H. fasiculare. There were many cespitose clusters close by but these three were so pretty,I had to take their photo.